[Python-Dev] Warn about mktemp once again?

[Greg Ewing]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Guido> Have we documented the alternatives well enough? 
> 
> I suppose we could document explicitly how to use mkstemp() in place of
> mktemp(), but the difference in return value is fairly modest:

I'd like to see a variation of mkstemp() that returns
a file object instead of a file descriptor, since that's
what you really want most of the time. At least I always
end up calling fdopen on it.

-- 
Greg